District Hospital seeks upgrade, RWAs back it

NOIDA: The District Hospital of Noida has been found to have a paucity of machines for conducting CT scan and MRI and patients in need of them are often referred to hospitals in New Delhi.
Talking to TOI, hospital's chief medical superintendent (CMS) R N P Mishra admitted that the hospital has its limitations. "Accidents happen every day in the city and victims are brought to the hospital.But in many critical cases we refer the patients to Delhi. We do not have a trauma centre or an intensive care unit (ICU) in the hospital," he said.
The hospital, also known as Ambedkar Hospital, was built in 2011 on the lines of Delhi's AIIMS at a cost of Rs 510 crore. The 100-bed hospital situated in Sector 30 caters to around 2,000 patients a day in its OPD and has 40 doctors. But hospital officials said that as it is a multi-speciality hospital and not a super-speciality one, treatment in cases of neurosurgery, oncology, cardiology or plastic surgery is not possible at present. The hospital currently offers treatment in cases related to general medicine, general surgery, gynaecology, orthopaedics and ENT among others. The hospital recently hired two laparoscopy experts but lacks the equipment for conducting laparoscopy.
The hospital management had recently written to the Noida Authority seeking a digital X-ray machine, CT scan and MRI machines, and other surgical equipment.
On Tuesday, Noida's RWA federation body, FONRWA, also raised the issue of lack of basic amenities in the District Hospital. FONRWA's president N P Singh said the body has written to the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and the Noida Authority chairman Rama Raman, asking them to address the lack of essential facilities in Ambedkar Hospital, the only government hospital of the entire district of Gautam Budh Nagar.
"When the government hospital is in such a pathetic state, where will the poor in the district go," he told TOI.According to Singh, over 60% of the district's population is poor and needy. In the absence of basic facilities in the government hospital, they have no choice but to go to the private hospitals.
Singh said in its letter to the CM and Raman, FONRWA has urged "the chief minister to address the problem immediately and the Authority to take cognizance of the hospital's condition."
Akhilesh Singh, DCEO of Noida Authority, said that he would look into the demands of the hospital. "We'll provide the necessary machines to the hospital soon," he said.
The hospital has also applied for accreditation to the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers.